[Imports] Import of 14, 020 United Nations Mission in Liberia place nodes

Christoph Hormann chris_hormann at gmx.de
Sat Sep 13 15:57:00 UTC 2014


On Saturday 13 September 2014, Rafael Avila Coya wrote:
>
> A wiki has been created as a draft for discussion:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import_Liberia_UNMIL_Places . In
> that wiki you have a link to the original data.

According to that page you plan on tagging all those place=hamlet based 
on the the fact that the majority of existing place nodes in the area 
are hamlets.  That does not seem like a good idea.  A quick look over 
the names indicates a large variety of place sizes (names consisting of 
elements like Farm, Mill, Camp, Village, Town) - the least that should 
be done in terms of pre-processing is an assessment which OSM 
categories these usually match and apply tags according to such name 
components.  This is no replacement for manual evaluation but with 
14000 objects skipping such a really simple step would be a waste of 
ressources.  For all places where no individual indication on the type 
of place exists no place=* tag or a generic one (like place=yes or 
place=unknown) should be used by default (possibly with a fixme tag).  
This would also help those participating in this import to keep track 
of their manual verification work.

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Christoph Hormann
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